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<blockquote data-quote="ScottinPollock" data-source="post: 483300" data-attributes="member: 40111"><p>IIRC, in lightroom, only the CPU does the rendering. The difference between a high end graphics card and even on-board graphics in drawing the already rendered bitmap from the buffer to the display will be negligible.</p><p></p><p>Now it appears that newer versions of PS are using GPU for its "Mercury" engine, and expectedly, this is mostly in the area of motion graphics and 3D rendering such as [FONT=Lato, Open Sans, sans-serif]<span style="color: #666666"> liquify, focus mask, warp, etc. Again, unless your doing serious video and/or motion graphics, spending a lot of money on a video card is a waste of money (unless you're a gamer).</span>[/FONT]</p><p></p><p>[FONT=Lato, Open Sans, sans-serif]<span style="color: #666666">I am sure Adobe has a list of 'tested' graphics cards on their site. I stand by my original assessment that even with a mediocre, dedicated graphics card, I/O will be your bottleneck. If it don't all fit into RAM, it is gonna get swapped out. Here, SSD (at least for the scratch disk) and lots of RAM are the better way to go.</span>[/FONT]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ScottinPollock, post: 483300, member: 40111"] IIRC, in lightroom, only the CPU does the rendering. The difference between a high end graphics card and even on-board graphics in drawing the already rendered bitmap from the buffer to the display will be negligible. Now it appears that newer versions of PS are using GPU for its "Mercury" engine, and expectedly, this is mostly in the area of motion graphics and 3D rendering such as [FONT=Lato, Open Sans, sans-serif][COLOR=#666666] liquify, focus mask, warp, etc. Again, unless your doing serious video and/or motion graphics, spending a lot of money on a video card is a waste of money (unless you're a gamer).[/COLOR][/FONT] [FONT=Lato, Open Sans, sans-serif][COLOR=#666666]I am sure Adobe has a list of 'tested' graphics cards on their site. I stand by my original assessment that even with a mediocre, dedicated graphics card, I/O will be your bottleneck. If it don't all fit into RAM, it is gonna get swapped out. Here, SSD (at least for the scratch disk) and lots of RAM are the better way to go.[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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